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The Beethoven letter
Beethoven Letter to Father of Child Prodigy Sold for $42,071
A handwritten letter by Ludwig van Beethoven arranging an afternoon visit with the father of a young piano prodigy sold for $42,071 at RR Auction’s latest F
H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines, a few months after being ‘planted’ in a Johannesburg garden.
Panizzi Lectures 2025 Focus on Print Culture in the Age of Climate Change
This year's Panizzi Lectures will be given by Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand Isabel Hofmeyr on the subje
One of Kipling's letters about his son
Rudyard Kipling Letters on the Wartime Loss of His Son to Auction
Rudyard Kipling's 18-year-old son John was reported missing in action in 1915 on the Western Front during a three-week offensive which left 61,000 wounded and nearly 8,000 dead.
Pride and Prejudice
, first edition, contemporary binding, ownership inscriptions dated less than eight weeks after publication.
 Estimate $120,000-$180,000.
Jane Austen First Editions and Columbus Letter Estimated at $2m to Auction
All of the first editions of Jane Austen’s most popular novels plus early books from the Age of Exploration and the study of biology go under the hammer at Chri
How the new space is likely to look
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Redesigns Thomas J. Watson Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the redesign of the Nolen Study Room in the
William Blake, Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, 1810 to 1820, etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
William Blake’s Handprinted Publications Centrepiece of New Exhibition
A major exhibition of works by William Blake is running at the Yale Center for British Art exploring the imaginative visual art and poetry held by the mus
William Harvey’s Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, 1628
Landmark Medical Works by William Harvey, Edward Jenner, and James Parkinson at Christie’s
100 books, manuscripts, and photographs from the Royal Society of Medicine library lead the Christie’s Valuable Books, Manuscripts and Photographs sale late
Rene Magritte signed autograph letter with surrealist sketch: "Below is a sketch of a new painting"
Beethoven, Magritte, and Einstein Letters to Auction
Letters written by Ludwig van Beethoven, Albert Einstein, James A.
Central and Western Earthsea, for A Wizard of Earthsea, c.1967. Ink on paper.
The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin Explored in New Exhibition and Book
Ursula K Le Guin began writing each new story by drawing a map and
Pages from Francis Crick's diaries
Francis Crick War Diaries to Auction
Diaries written by English molecular biologist Francis Crick who played a crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule will go under the hammer at